Alongside iOS developer Rebecca Slatkin, [Ben Sandofsky, Sebastiaan de With] have turned Halide into one of the App Store’s most popular pro camera apps, bringing histograms, waveforms, color zebras, and RAW+JPEG capture to all. Spectre Camera, the team’s remarkable long-exposure app, was named 2019 iPhone App of the Year.
Halide is arguably the best iPhone camera app in the App Store today and this is a great read. Including a little origin story!
When did you decide to create Halide?
de With: Ben slid into my Twitter DMs back in 2016. We interacted about photo gear and tech, then decided to make an app as a pure passion project. When we launched, I remember my mother saying, “There are a lot of camera apps out there.” But Ben and I had to scratch this itch.
You can read the full thing on the Apple developer website now. You can download Halide Mark II from the App Store, too.
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